army1987 comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

157 Post author: Yvain 27 August 2012 03:36AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 August 2012 08:13:56AM *  1 point [-]

These would be excellent examples of TWAITW if anyone ever asserted them which as far as I know no one ever has.

Judith Jarvis Thomson? (Well, she didn't use the word slavery but still.)

As for the euthanasia-is-torture one, I heard that a lot on the media at the time of Terri Schiavo and similar cases. (Maybe none used the word torture but still.)

Comment author: MileyCyrus 28 August 2012 11:43:09AM *  0 points [-]

I lost a lot of faith in contemporary philosophy when I heard "A Defense of Abortion" was "the most widely reprinted essay in all of contemporary philosophy".